TVn.¹

Brit.

/ˌtiːˈviː/, U.S.

/ˌtiˈvi/,

/ˈtiˌvi/

Forms: 1900s– TV, 1900s– T.V., 2000s– tv.

Origin: Formed within English, as an initialism. Etymon: television n.

Etymology: Initialism < the initial letters of the elements of television n.In early use frequently in proximity to the initialisms AM n. at A n. Initialisms and F.M. n. at F n. Initialisms 3a (as in quot. 1945 at sense 1).

Originally U.S.

1. Television and the technology or equipment relating to it; the activity or occupation of broadcasting or transmitting on television; that which is broadcast or transmitted by television; = television n. 1.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun]

television1900

telly1930

tele1936

small screen1944

TV1945

teevee1948

1945 Broadcasting 8 Jan. 43 (advt.) In AM..FM..TV..your prime need in broadcast equipment.

1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 273/2 American TV is heavily supported by business interests.

1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon xiii. 333 We're standing by for an exciting evening of TV and a presleep report.

1983 M. Palin Diary 18 May in Halfway to Hollywood (2009) 257 Watch Chas McKeown's prog.., his first series for BBC TV.

1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred ii. vii. 90 One of the more popular characters today in films and TV is the crusty ungiving, authoritarian father who ‘really loves’ his children.

2014 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 24/6 Jerry Bruckheimer..in recent years has been producing more for TV.

2. A television set; = television n. 2. Cf. TV set n. at Compounds 1b.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set

television set1924

television1929

home video1949

TV1949

box1950

transistor set1953

telly1954

idiot box1955

monitor1957

boob tube1959

goggle-box1959

transportable1959

the tube1959

portable1960

set1961

widescreen1982

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Mar. 16/2 We aren't turning on the T.V. tonight.

1971 New Scientist 26 Aug. 469/1 The VCR is put between the TV and its aerial.

1987 I. McEwan Child in Time i. 11 Much of this freedom he spent..in front of the TV.

2014 Observer 19 Jan. (Mag.) 35 Stand up and turn off the TV.

Phrases

on (the) TV: = on (the) television at television n. Phrases.

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1945 Broadcasting 20 Aug. 26/4 (heading) Beauty winners on TV.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. iv. 47 Is the effect of showing violence in films or on TV to arouse or to satiate aggressive feelings?

1976 T. Sharpe Wilt xiii. 136 You've been watching too many old movies on the TV.

2013 M. Leibovich This Town xiii. 347 Aides would be competing with one another to get on TV.

Compounds

[Corresponding compounds with television as the first element are typically earlier than, and a likely model for, the equivalent formations with TV.]

C1.

a. General attributive.Many of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. For compounds denoting people involved in television broadcasting, see Compounds 2a; for compounds denoting material broadcast on television, see Compounds 2b.Recorded earliest in TV antenna n. at Compounds 1b.

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1945 Broadcasting 2 July 65/4 Up to 300-foot TV antennas in residential areas.

1948 Billboard 10 Apr. 3/4 Current plans call for additional TV equipment.

1952 Life 17 Nov. 112 World-famous ‘Golden Throat’ tone system with extra-sensitive 12-inch speaker makes your..TV listening the finest ever!

1959 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 21 Jan. 3/7 (advt.) New..system protects all tubes against warm-up power surge, main cause of TV failure.

1960 Pop. Sci. May 232/2 What satellite telescopes see can be relayed directly to earth by TV technique.

1965 Guardian 10 Aug. 12/3 (advt.) The manufacture of radio and TV valves.

1978 Gramophone Aug. 391/1 The PAL TV format commonly used in Europe.

1984 A. Maupin Babycakes (1989) iii. 13 He wondered if he qualified as a full-fledged TV junkie.

1990 What Satellite July 54/2 April 20th saw a very rare TV feed of the Moscow first programme with sound undistorted.

2014 L. Bencze & S. Alsop Activist Sci. & Technol. Educ. xxxiv. 617 Workers in countries like China who manufacture TV components.

TV aerial n.

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1946 Electronic Engin. May p. vi/2 (advt.) What type of feeder should be used with a dipole T.V. aerial?

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vi. 133 A circling seagull..eventually settled on a TV aerial above a block of council flats.

TV age n.

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1950 Sponsor 25 Sept. 2 Big hope of movie exhibitors in TV age is large-screen showings of World Series,..other sports and special events.

2011 J. Foot Pedalare! Pedalare! xvii. 234 The TV age gave a live sport like cycling enormous visibility.

TV antenna n.

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1945 Broadcasting 2 July 65/4 Up to 300-foot TV antennas in residential areas.

2008 P. Parsons Blue Skies v. 230 Every time a home hooked up to the cable, the TV antenna came down.

TV audience n.

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1947 Billboard 5 July 19/1 The optimistic estimates about a quickly growing TV audience are now being borne out.

2014 H. A. Solberg & C. Gratton in S. Frawley Managing Football World Cup iv. 47 The 2010 final attracted the highest ever TV audiences in both the home nations of the two finalists.

TV broadcast n.

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1945 Broadcasting 17 Sept. 4/1 Possible violations of religious freedom..in barring AFM members from TV broadcast of Jewish religious services over WBKB Chicago.

2012 Private Eye 15 June 14/3 The BBC had thought about a TV broadcast and discussed it over several months.

TV broadcaster n.

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1945 Broadcasting 9 July 77/2 (caption) William A. Roberts, Tv Broadcasters Assn. counsel.

2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Nov. a2/4 The low-band airwaves like those held by the TV broadcasters.

TV broadcasting n.

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1946 Television May 37/1 The present industry confusion over TV broadcasting.

2015 G. Thomas et al. in M. A. Magnor et al. Digital Representations of Real World xxi. 317 In the future these techniques might spread to other areas of TV broadcasting.

TV channel n.

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1945 Broadcasting 16 July 18/4 The first new TV channel.

2004 H. Kunzru Transmission (2005) 18 This is what comes of too many TV channels.

TV coverage n.

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1947 Sponsor Oct. 61/2 It's possible that national TV coverage is not a thing of the far-away future.

2012 Snooker Scene Mar. 10/2 This match was not selected for TV coverage.

TV frequency n.

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1945 Billboard 8 Dec. 15/1 Giant companies..moving ahead in multiple-station exploitation of the low TV frequencies.

2005 Media Policy for Digital Age i. 11 It is the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs that issues the FM radio and TV frequencies for (commercial) broadcasters.

TV lounge n.

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1950 N.Y. Times 28 May (Real Estate & Classified Advts. section) 23/4 (advt.) TV lounge.

2007 J. Sellers Perfect from now On vi. 69 I had no choice but to set off in search of a more optimal TV lounge on a different floor.

TV mast n.

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1948 Billboard 23 Oct. 12/4 The problem raised by TV masts and antennas.

2010 M. Denny Super Structures iii. 85 It is quite realistic for a TV mast..to be 50 or 60 times as high as it is wide.

TV monitor n.

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1948 Broadcasting, Telecasting 12 July 88 (advt.) Federal's TV monitor meets all FCC requirements.

2005 New Yorker 3 Oct. 77/1 A TV monitor with a video in it showing nothing but slowly moving trains.

TV receiver n.

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1945 Billboard 1 Dec. 28/4 Low-frequency TV receivers.

2013 M. Starks Digital Television Revol. ix. 198 The idea of a licence fee paid by every household with a TV receiver did not survive into the digital world in all countries with public services.

TV reception n.

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1946 Electronic Industries Dec. 4/1 (advt.) The new Andrew Di-Fan Broad Band Antenna, for improved FM and TV reception.

2001 Time 20 Aug. 64/1 A land of tall mountains and bad TV reception.

TV room n.

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1948 Variety 22 Dec. 21/5 San Francisco Theatres' 1,800-seater..will have a 200-seat separate TV room.

2005 V. Swarup Q & A 112 Come Wednesday night, he sits in the TV room with his stubby of Foster's beer.

TV screen n.

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1945 Broadcasting 17 Dec. 76/3 Reproductions of articles on CBS video are included with TV screen views.

2004 D. Peace GB 84 297 He stares at the silent TV screens.

TV set n.

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1946 Electronic Industries Oct. 84/1 TV set production prospects... Television receiver production is still in low gear.

2004 D. Redmond World is Watching Introd. 1 Video has migrated from the film screen and TV set to the personal computer and the Web at a dizzying rate.

TV signal n.

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1945 Broadcasting 13 Aug. 17/1 Fourteen ‘flying transmitters’..will blanket..78% of U.S. population with FM and TV signals.

2013 W. M. Hartmann Princ. Musical Acoustics xxi. 223 The TV signal includes both the audio and the video information.

TV studio n.

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1945 Broadcasting 3 Sept. 86/1 (heading) Wanamaker TV studios.

2002 R. Rankin Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Apocalypse xix. 209 We're here in a TV studio. Watching the Miss Muffett show live.

TV transmission n.

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1947 Tele-Tech Sept. 43/1 What effect did TV transmission have on mobile FM reception?

2009 M. Butter Epitome of Evil 1 The signal they are dealing with is a simple TV transmission.

TV transmitter n.

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1945 Broadcasting 26 Nov. 82/3 (heading) ‘Highest’ TV transmitter planned for Mt. Wilson.

2007 J. L. Baughman Same Time, Same Station i. 1 Throughout the country, consumers far from TV transmitters struggled to obtain a good signal.

C2.

a. attributive with the sense ‘designating a person who appears on or makes television programmes, or who is involved in television broadcasting more generally; designating an activity, process, etc., associated with such a person, or with the production or broadcast of television programmes’. Cf. television n. Compounds 2a.

TV acting n.

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1949 Television June 18/2 In general stage experience can be translated into TV acting better than that of radio.

2012 D. Cannon In-depth Acting ix. 127 If it was too naturalistic this might be considered filmic or TV acting.

TV actor n.

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1947 Tele-Tech Nov. 56/3 (heading) NBC's TV actors get radio direction.

2008 L. Weisberger Chasing Harry Winston 139 A TV actor,..a star on NBC's most popular prime-time series.

TV actress n.

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1949 Broadcasting 3 Jan. 62/1 Lenore Kingston, writer and TV actress.

2007 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Nov. 37/3 The one-time Neighbours poppette is too busy cramming in motherhood and being a TV actress.

TV announcer n.

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1948 Broadcasting, Telecasting 17 May 54 b/2 The TV announcer..will be headquartered in a booth.

2013 J. N. Maclean Esperanza Fire xi. 155 The TV announcer reported that heavy smoke..was expected to delay traffic.

TV cameraman n.

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1948 Boston Sunday Globe 11 July a18/5 So the TV announcer follows the TV cameraman.

2002 J. M. Rist Real Ethics (2003) i. 10 Human behaviour..as it is recorded directly by historians, journalists, TV cameramen and film-makers.

TV celebrity n.

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1950 N.Y. Times 27 Sept. 56/8 (advt.) Sec[retar]y to TV celebrity.

2005 M. Robotham Suspect xii. 97 A minor TV celebrity who is sporting a sun-bed tan and perfect teeth.

TV comedian n.

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1949 Time 8 Aug. 2/3 TV comedian..David Garroway..is due for a Time promotion.

2008 Independent 6 Mar. (Extra section) 6/1 Astronauts, sportsmen, professional satirists and TV comedians make up the premier league of post-prandial monologuists.

TV commentator n.

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1948 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 20 Dec. 14/5 I, for one, don't think the TV commentators talk enough.

2002 Observer 3 Nov. (Sport Monthly Suppl.) 66/3 He is now a successful TV commentator renowned for his eccentric musings on the game.

TV crew n.

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1948 Billboard 17 Apr. 14/1 Problems which do not usually harass TV crews working on a special event.

2007 Heat 17 Feb. 7/2 Jade was soon to be whisked to India by a TV crew.

TV executive n.

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1946 Frequency Modulation Business Feb. 31/2 (advt.) A..schedule of periodical reports as important to the FM and TV executive as expert tax and financial services in their fields.

2015 M. Bamberger Men in Green xvii. 186 TV executives..were figuring out that televised golf was a way to deliver the good life to the masses.

TV journalism n.

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1948 Broadcasting, Telecasting 25 Oct. 83/3 (advt.) News writer and editor interested in radio or TV journalism.

2000 J. D. Slack & M. M. Semati in J. Marchessault & K. Sawchuk Wild Sci. xiii. 215 The issue..in the tradition of TV journalism came to be called ‘the Sokal affair’.

TV journalist n.

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1952 Nation's Business June 32/2 These perpetual enemies work to please or thwart..radio and TV journalists.

2014 J. Rose Public Understanding of Polit. Integrity ii. 40 Trust in TV journalists was found to be unrelated to trust in the political authorities.

TV producer n.

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1947 Billboard 22 Feb. 13/3 TV producers can solve some excruciatingly difficult inherent problems.

2001 J. Walsh & P. Lerman Public Enemies (2002) iii. 157 There is a certain part of any TV producer that wants the story you're involved in to be recognized as a big story.

TV production n.

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1947 Billboard 22 Feb. 12/3 A victory for upstairs color would stymie practically all current TV production and black-white broadcasting.

2013 New Yorker 25 Feb. 74/1 As a model of TV production, it's an exciting experiment.

TV pundit n.

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1953 Radio & Television News Apr. 68/2 ‘Study the test pattern’, commanded the TV pundits in their service lectures.

2006 New Yorker 10 Apr. 25/1 For years, the immigration debate has been exercising politicians, economists, TV pundits, and editorial writers.

TV reporter n.

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1949 Chicago Heights (Illinois) Star 11 Mar. 11/2 (advt.) If you've a question, address them to the TV Reporter, furniture floor, the Rau Store, and we'll be happy to answer them for you.

2010 Church Times 9 Apr. 12/1 Meanwhile, TV reporters, intoxicated by heightened interest, become show-folk rather than journalists.

TV script n.

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1947 Jrnl. AER Feb. 101/1 Have you sample TV scripts which the Committee may reproduce in quantity for distribution?

2005 L. Brody Turning Points in Television xviii. 182 No TV script can stand much scrutiny.

TV writer n.

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1948 Variety 28 July 87/4 There are few staff TV writers.

2013 Fast Company June 138/2 We asked Ben Blacker, himself a TV writer, to interview the creators or showrunners of six stellar shows.

b. attributive with the sense ‘designating material broadcast on television; shown on television’.

TV ad n.

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1949 Billboard 16 July 14/2 TV ads..were all slanted pricewise.

2006 FourFourTwo Aug. 101/2 Advertising caffeine-fuelled Brazilian drink Guarana Antartica, Maradona appears in a TV ad in a Brazil top.

TV adaptation n.

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1948 Variety 6 Oct. 28/1 TV adaptations of dramatic clicks.

2009 G. Dyer Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 53 Looking like he was starring in a TV adaptation of a novel about an artist who was also one of the Cambridge spies.

TV advert n.

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1951 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. 30/8 (advt.) Opportunity!.. TV advert.

2011 Independent 18 Nov. 23/5 A recent TV advert encouraged unemployed young people to apply for careers advice.

TV advertisement n.

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1948 Televiser Apr. 29/2 $10,000,000 for TV advertisements in '48.

2015 S. Thuiner Banks of Future p. v It will take more than a few TV advertisements..to respond to customer alienation.

TV advertising n.

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1948 Televiser Mar. 33/1 $10,000,000 for TV Advertising.

2007 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 23/1 The unexpected revelation that restrictions on TV advertising are to be eased.

TV comedy n.

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1945 Broadcasting 29 Oct. 29/3 TV comedy... New Series of comedy sketches..started Oct. 16 by CBS television.

2007 Esquire Dec. 83/3 Larry Gelbart and Alan Alda, writer and star of the great Seventies military TV comedy M*A*S*H.

TV commercial n.

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1947 Billboard 11 Oct. 16/4 The quality and forcefulness of the respective sponsor's TV commercials.

2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 June b3/1 Advertisers looking for alternatives to traditional TV commercials.

TV documentary n.

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1948 Variety 15 Sept. 36/5 A special television camera crew..which is filming material for ABC's first TV documentary.

2008 R. Moore & G. Owen My Word is my Bond (2009) xiv. 363 I often introduced TV documentaries or took part in promotional interviews.

TV drama n.

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1945 Broadcasting 3 Sept. 60/3 (heading) TV drama.

2012 Independent 19 Nov. 22/2 The advent of The Sopranos in 1999..ushered in a golden decade of TV drama.

TV film n.

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1947 Billboard 5 Apr. 12/2 (heading) Chi producer claims TV film only answer to medium's high demand for low cost programs.

2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 7 Aug. 20 The story..is to be made into a TV film by Walt Disney.

TV interview n.

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1948 Billboard 13 Nov. 16/2 TV interviews with the guy laughingly referred to as the common man are pretty sorry deals at best.

2007 Guardian 12 Feb. (G2 section) 2/2 In a rare TV interview, JK Rowling said two characters would die in the final book.

TV news n.

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1949 Billboard 26 Feb. 15 (table) Thursday, CBS, 7:30–7:45, ‘TV News’.

2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 573 Howard's sitting in front of the TV news that night.

TV play n.

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1948 Variety 3 Mar. 26/4 (heading) Motorola preps TV play series from Chi Museum.

2010 M. Caine Elephant to Hollywood iv. 49 Sean Connery..had got the lead role in the TV play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

TV programme n.

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1947 Broadcasting, Telecasting 13 Jan. 17/1 (heading) TBA authorizes TV program code.

2004 A. Crumey Mobius Dick (2005) 96 The people who know all about the uncertainty principle and Schrödinger's cat from countless popular books and TV programmes.

TV programming n.

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1945 Broadcasting 19 Nov. 28/4 (heading) TV programming.

2014 M. Cosper Stories we Tell x. 194 Survivor was relatively cheap to produce and enormously popular, spawning a revolution in TV programming.

TV serial n.

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1948 Radio Daily 18 Aug. 54/1 It is highly entertaining and being a TV serial an excellent advertising vehicle for a good product.

2001 Birds Summer 24/1 The Good Life encompassed the principle in a sweet TV serial that everyone liked.

TV series n.

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1946 Broadcasting, Telecasting 30 Dec. 4/4 (heading) Two TV series.

2005 Millimeter Oct. 13/1 (caption) The crew used the original Serenity ship model from the Firefly TV series.

TV show n.

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1945 Broadcasting 3 Sept. 42/1 TV show started by Chicago schools.

2011 H. Pool Stranger in Taiwan 172 The perfect way to spend the free afternoon and evening would have been to..watch some DVDs of British TV shows I'd been saving up.

TV spot n.

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1947 Billboard 20 Sept. 27 (heading) CBS's on-the-spot TV spot.

2009 New Yorker 19 Jan. 44/1 With this material, I can't reach you emotionally, tell the story, or be visually transcendent in a thirty-second TV spot.

C3. Objective, as TV owner, TV viewer, TV viewing, etc.

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1948 Sponsor Mar. 72/2 TV viewing is changing listening habits.

1949 Variety 26 Jan. 11/4 It is open to question whether or not the theatre audiences didn't do just as well as TV watchers in having the highlights edited.

1955 Washington Post 20 June 20/6 Although only 29 per cent of TV owners read books, only 35 per cent without sets do either.

1984 Irish Times 24 Jan. 10/2 A TV-loving mongrel and his canine preferences.

1994 F. Gray Women & Laughter ii. 42 Ordinary, TV-watching people like themselves.

2014 H. E. Naess Sociol. World Rally Championship i. 1 A pop-cultural roadshow..with..more than 600 million TV viewers annually.

C4.

TV cabinet n. a piece of furniture housing a television, or on which a television stands.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets

Flanders chest1400

warestall1508

livery cupboard1571

boy1656

by-closet1696

corner-cupboard1711

India cabinet1721

pot-cupboard1789

housemaid's cupboard1843

monocleid1885

vargueño1911

console1925

cocktail cabinet1928

storage unit1951

1948 Tele-tech May 21/2 One large company has inaugurated a continuous cabinet production line that fabricates TV cabinets from the wood.

2006 Good Woodworking June 73/3 The most complex project is probably the tambour-door TV cabinet.

TV camera n. = television camera n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera

kinetograph1891

kinetophonograph1894

cinematograph1896

animatograph1898

sound camera1904

cinecamera1908

cinema1908

aeroscope1913

TV camera1947

camcorder1982

headcam1991

1947 Billboard 13 Sept. 14/3 (heading) TV camera accuracy.

1977 New Scientist 14 Apr. 83/1 An auxiliary TV camera with a wide-angle lens.

2009 R. Ferrigno Heart of Assassin xxvi. 170 Malcolm Crews strutted across the stage.., posturing for the TV cameras.

TV chef n. a chef who appears regularly on television, demonstrating recipes and other cookery techniques.

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1956 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 32 The TV chef[sc. Philip Harben] smacked his lips as he recalled the hors d'oeuvres..served there.

2011 Independent 8 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 12/3 We've been encouraged by a thousand food writers and TV chefs to examine the raw materials we're about to transform into fuel and shove into our mouths.

TV critic n. = television critic n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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1949 Variety 18 May 36/3 Lesser-known professional talent will be judged by a panel of TV critics.

2003 Washington Post 1 June (Home ed.) (TV Week section) 6/1 TV critics often point out that the network has lost faith in the series.

TV dinner n. originally U.S. a (usually chilled or frozen) prepared, pre-packaged complete meal that only requires heating in a microwave or conventional oven before it is ready to eat, typically intended to be eaten while watching television; cf. ready meal n. at ready adj., adv., int., and n. Compounds 4.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > main meal or dinner

mealeOE

dinnerc1325

dinea1425

Christmas dinner1581

Sunday dinner1602

corporation dinner1732

Russian dinner1805

boiled dinner1823

pickup1848

Robin Dinner1877

course-dinner1895

shore dinner1895

din-din1905

gala dinner1934

TV dinner1952

working dinner1956

steak dinnera1964

1952 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Daily Freeman 5 Sept. 5/4 Take home Goff's delicious TV dinners.

1970 L. Koenig & P. L. Dixon Children are Watching (1971) i. 6 Inside the stove glinted four TV dinners..nested in silver-aluminum trays,..identical portions of gray pot roast, dinner roll, wrinkled peas and rigid mashed potatoes under foil.

2009 Independent 23 July (Life section) 8/3 The TV Dinner became typical of the frozen ready meal.

TV engineer n. = television engineer n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > people involved in television production > others

production director1915

production manager1927

television engineer1930

production assistant1932

vision-mixer1938

TV engineer1946

lighting cameraman1947

floor manager1960

helmer1974

showrunner1989

1946 Electronic Industries Oct. 57/2 Some TV engineers define their picture results in ‘foot-candles’.

2001 M. Blackstaff Business & Finance for IT People vii. 89 The TV engineer will come to see to your TV.

TV evangelism n. originally U.S. = televangelism n.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > through television

television evangelism1951

TV evangelism1957

televangelism1958

1957 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 2 Aug. 11/3 TV evangelism appears not up to expectations.

1977 Washington Post 25 July b1/ Rev. M.G. ‘Pat’ Robertson has changed the style of TV evangelism.

2011 B. S. Turner Relig. & Mod. Society xi. 218 The dominant evangelical Protestant message of TV evangelism.

TV evangelist n. originally U.S. = televangelist n.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > through television > one who evangelizes

television evangelist1950

TV evangelist1953

televangelist1973

televangelical1982

1953 Los Angeles Times 5 May ii. 1/8 Fred Jordan, radio and TV evangelist.

1981 J. K. Hadden & C. E. Swann Prime Time Preachers i. 5 Jerry Falwell, another TV evangelist, and his Moral Majority showed up in force at the Republican National Convention.

2014 R. Sanjek Ethnogr. in Today's World iii. 46 His sermon..criticized the TV evangelists for their hypocrisy.

TV guide n. = television guide n. at television n. Compounds 4.A proprietary name in the United States.

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1949 Televiser Feb. 9 Your subscription to TV Guide.

1971 J. Lorimer & M. Phillips Working People viii. 251 Let's look at the TV guide and see what's on.

2004 P. Lennon Allusions in Press 10 Popular items tend to include TV guides, cartoons, horoscopes and stories about star personalities.

TV image n. = television image n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image

television image1909

frame1915

television picture1926

TV picture1947

home video1948

TV image1948

1948 Pop. Mech. Sept. 224/2 Patterns that interfere with the clarity of TV images.

1993 New Scientist 2 Oct. 42/2 The doctors..benefit from being able to transmit X-rays and high-definition TV images of patients to a large central hospital.

2015 J. A. Turnock Plastic Reality iv. 145 Much like a video or TV image, all elements [of 5247 filk stock] tended to look like they were on the same flat plane.

TV industry n. = television industry n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organized television broadcasting

television1927

television industry1928

TV industry1946

television land1950

TV land1952

1946 Frequency Modulation Business May 32/1 (advt.) A unique service to the FM and TV industries.

1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 14 Nov. 13/1 The ITC's franchise awards promise to further complicate a TV industry already in a state of disarray.

2015 K. Wolfe TV Presenter's Career Handbk. xvi. 125 What advice does Jude offer to people wanting to enter the TV industry?

TV licence n. = television licence n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television licencing

television licence1926

TV licence1945

1945 Broadcasting 24 Sept. 83/2 No person..can be granted a TV license if he owns or controls a site which..would prevent the introduction of other stations in the area.

1948 Broadcasting 30 Aug. 18/4 2400 TV licenses were taken out during July.

1987 P. Berryman Liberation Theol. xii. 185 In theory, anyone can publish a newspaper or apply for a TV license.

2009 C. Dawson Essent. Guide to Paying for University iv. 50 It is possible to get a refund on your TV licence if you leave your accommodation before the licence expires.

TV magazine n. = television magazine n. at television n. Compounds 4.

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1948 Televiser Aug. 2/3 New TV Magazine: A new monthly consumer magazine..will hit the stands in November.

1974 L. Gould Final Anal. xiii. 158 She'd had a job at a TV magazine called Rerun.

2002 D. Chiaro in G. Garzone & M. Viezzi Interpreting in 21st Cent. 215 TV magazines and/or variety shows which are principally concerned with music and film.

TV movie n. (a) a film recording of a television broadcast (now disused); (b) a movie shown on television, esp. one specially made for that medium rather than for release at the cinema (cf. made-for-TV adj. at made adj. Compounds 2); cf. TV film n. at Compounds 2b.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types

romantic comedy1748

epic1785

pre-release1871

foreign film1899

frivol1903

dramedy1905

film loop1906

first run1910

detective film1911

colour film1912

news film1912

topical1912

cinemicrograph1913

scenic1913

sport1913

newsreel1914

serial1914

sex comedy1915

war picture1915

telefilm1919

comic1920

true crime1923

art house1925

quickie1926

turkey1927

two-reeler1928

smellie1929

disaster film1930

musical1930

feelie1931

sticky1934

action comedy1936

quota quickie1936

re-release1936

screwball comedy1937

telemovie1937

pickup1939

video film1939

actioner1940

space opera1941

telepic1944

biopic1947

kinescope1949

TV movie1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

deepie1953

misterioso1953

film noir1956

policier1956

psychodrama1956

free film1958

prequel1958

co-production1959

glossy1960

sexploiter1960

sci-fier1961

tie-in1962

chanchada1963

romcom1963

wuxia1963

chick flick1964

showreel1964

mockumentary1965

sword-and-sandal1965

schlockbuster1966

mondo1967

peplum1968

thriller1968

whydunit1968

schlocker1969

buddy-buddy movie1972

buddy-buddy film1974

buddy film1974

science-fictioner1974

screwball1974

buddy movie1975

slasher movie1975

swashbuckler1975

filmi1976

triptych1976

autobiopic1977

Britcom1977

kidflick1977

noir1977

bodice-ripper1979

chopsocky1981

date movie1983

kaiju eiga1984

screener1986

neo-noir1987

indie1990

bromance2001

hack-and-slash2002

mumblecore2005

dark fantasy2007

hack-and-slay2007

gorefest2012

kidult-

1949 Pop. Photogr. May 10/2 I had recently tried making TV movies myself.

1949 Washington Post 31 July vi. 4/1 (heading) Phonevision gives you your own TV movie.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 9 Mar. 87/2 The doomed romance..feels like it was lifted from a bad TV movie.

TV network n. = television network n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organization or service

television station1926

television network1930

TV station1945

TV network1947

channel1952

Independent Television (Authority)1954

I.T.A.1955

I.T.V.1958

side1961

Channel 41964

MTV1981

1947 Billboard 28 June 18/4 (heading) Provides for TV network.

1976 Maclean's 9 Feb. 32/2 The secret and all-powerful Q Ratings that are researched for TV networks to determine a performer's appeal.

2012 Vanity Fair Mar. 275/1 ‘Pilot season’—the period when many TV networks cast and produce the first episodes of prospective new shows.

TV personality n. = television personality n. (b) at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television personality

television personality1929

TV star1948

televisionary1960

1948 Variety 11 Aug. 28/4 Developing of potential TV personalities.

2005 A. Smith Accidental 43 It is a girl's neat bedroom. It has posters of singers, pictures of tv personalities.

TV picture n. = television picture n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image

television image1909

frame1915

television picture1926

TV picture1947

home video1948

TV image1948

1947 Television Jan. 4/1 Most of them know why ‘image orthicons’ make for better tv pictures.

1966 Pop. Mech. Oct. 200/1 The TV picture shrinks to a little dot and disappears.

2006 Hi Life Issue 5 64/1 Widescreen, ultra-detailed TV pictures with surround sound are an exciting prospect.

TV presenter n. = television presenter n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΚΠ

1952 Sponsor 17 Nov. 90/3 Related closely to this question of the ‘compatible’ TV presenter is the use of authorities in TV commercials.

1990 Today 12 Mar. 2 The awards were announced at the Savoy Hotel by TV presenter Valerie Singleton.

2011 S. Leith You talkin' to Me? 143 We've all witnessed with embarrassment..the panicky TV presenter ‘drying’ on air.

TV ratings n. = television ratings n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΚΠ

1946 Broadcasting 28 Oct. 4/1 Permanent base for FM and TV ratings..will be established.

2010 Observer 3 Jan. 32/5 It's a safe bet that Jersey Shore will do well,..as its cast continues to fist-pump, fight and fornicate their way up the TV ratings.

TV region n. = television region n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > area covered by

region1929

coverage1930

TV region1948

television region1949

1948 Broadcasting 12 July 98/1 Part of the upper band might be given to government services displaced by its plan to add 8 channels in present TV region.

1980 Observer 27 Jan. 2/1 The most vulnerable programmes..are the ‘opt-outs’ produced in the eight English TV regions.

2011 A. McStay Mood of Information 154 Television services in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region.

TV replay n. (a) a second or further broadcast of a television programme; a repeat (now rare); (b) a playback on television of an incident in a sporting event, esp. in slow motion; an instant replay; = television replay n. (b) at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > action or instance of replaying recording > specific

television replay1954

TV replay1955

action replay1970

instant replay1973

1955 Amer. News Trade Jrnl. Apr. 9/1 There will be TV replays of ‘20,000 Leagues’ on March 16 and 30.

1959 Billboard 19 Oct. 40/5 The Three Stooges have been making a strong comeback via TV replays of their old film shorts.

1966 N.Y. Times 26 May 61/5 (heading) Instant TV replays on field banned by Pacific Elevens.

2006 Express (Scottish ed.) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 75 TV replays showed Roger Mayweather was already clambering into the ring before time had been called.

TV rights n. = television rights n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΚΠ

1947 Broadcasting 13 Jan. 16/1 (heading) TV rights to NBC.

1988 C. Chapman & R. Starkman On Edge x. 148 The race organizers alone receive $15 million a year from sponsorship, TV rights and gate money.

2001 Dreamwatch Oct. 22/1 Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures have optioned the feature and TV rights to a short story based on Clive Barker's Ecto-Kid.

TV satellite n. = television satellite n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > satellite

television satellite1952

TV satellite1957

satellite dish1962

direct broadcasting by satellite1977

DBS1981

Squarial1988

1957 N.Y. Times 11 Oct. 7/1 (heading) Astronautical experts see prospect of TV satellite to watch whole world.

1970 Pop. Sci. May 65/1 The TV satellite..will have a solar-powered 80-watt transmitter..and a suitable receiver to intercept a TV program beamed up to it.

2010 G. Bains in C. Forrester High Above (2011) ii. 24/1 TV satellites can spread their signal over a far wider area than any Earth-based transmitter.

TV schedule n. = television schedule n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΚΠ

1947 Broadcasting 24 Mar. 54/4 (heading) Expands TV schedule.

2004 BBC Good Food Oct. 119/3 Michelin-starred Gordon Ramsay..livens up the TV schedules with C4's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

TV special n. = television special n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme

dramedy1905

news film1912

sex comedy1915

television adaptation1935

action comedy1936

sportcast1939

teleshopper1949

telethon1949

special1952

television special1952

TV special1952

science-fictioner1953

spectacular1954

promo1955

sitcom1956

spec1959

spin-off1959

reality programming1962

teleroman1964

mockumentary1965

serialization1965

talk show1965

laugh-in1967

novela1968

reality show1968

breakfast television1971

spy series1975

reality television1978

reality TV1980

series1988

shockumentary1988

1952 Billboard 5 Jan. 3/4 (heading) Bill Stern signed up for 13 TV specials.

1990 Fortune 3 Dec. 177/3 Bass's Space Biospheres Ventures arranged for two prime-time TV specials to document the occasion.

2003 K. Slater & J. Borte Pipe Dreams (2004) ix. 191 She was shooting a TV special, and we clicked immediately.

TV stand n. a piece of furniture on which a television stands.

ΘΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > other stands

boot-rack1837

umbrella-stand1837

watch-stand1858

pot stand1868

wig-stand1883

tie rack1916

patio stand1969

1954 Living for Young Homemakers Jan. 18 (advt.) All you need is a screwdriver to build tables, couches, benches, TV stands, desks.

2017 J. Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing iii. 81 The television sits on top of a box instead of a TV stand.

TV star n. = television star n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television personality

television personality1929

TV star1948

televisionary1960

1948 Washington Post 29 Aug. vi. 4/1 (heading) Local TV stars top poll.

2015 P. O'Reilly Peripheral Vision 6 Marly thought he should be a model or a TV star, not some loser walking around the suburbs trying to sell stuff.

TV station n. = television station n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting station

station1910

transmitting station1923

television station1926

rebroadcaster1930

TV station1945

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organization or service

television station1926

television network1930

TV station1945

TV network1947

channel1952

Independent Television (Authority)1954

I.T.A.1955

I.T.V.1958

side1961

Channel 41964

MTV1981

1945 Broadcasting 19 Mar. 82/2 New commercial TV station.

1970 Time 28 Sept. 66/2 Working as a ‘gofer’ at a Minneapolis TV station.

2014 S. Friedman Comedy & Distinction i. 1 The scheduling plans of Britain's biggest TV station..were leaked to the press.

TV tube n. a vacuum tube (in later use spec. a cathode ray tube) used in a television to convert electrical signals into images; = television tube n. (a) at television n. Compounds 4; (hence) television; a TV set (cf. tube n. 2k).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set > cathode-ray tube

television tube1928

kinescope1930

picture tube1940

TV tube1945

1945 Broadcasting 12 Nov. 34/2 (heading) NBC uses new TV tube in coverage of election.

1991 Photographer Aug. 27/2 The TV tube, whether seen in your living room or used on a high-end computer image manipulation system, has a marked tendency to compress the shadow tones.

2004 Alberni Valley (Brit. Columbia) Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. b2 Not being a hockey fan, the little of the game I do see is usually the fare presented on the TV tube.

TV van n. = television van n. at television n. Compounds 4.

ΚΠ

1949 Communications (N.Y.) Dec. 10 (heading) TV vans, serving as a control room.

1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873/1 TV vans surround the house.

2004 H. Kunzru Transmission (2005) 162 A TV van and a few hire cars had pulled up on to the grass verge.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2022).

单词	tv
释义	TVn.¹ Brit. /ˌtiːˈviː/, U.S. /ˌtiˈvi/, /ˈtiˌvi/ Forms: 1900s– TV, 1900s– T.V., 2000s– tv. Origin: Formed within English, as an initialism. Etymon: television n. Etymology: Initialism < the initial letters of the elements of television n.In early use frequently in proximity to the initialisms AM n. at A n. Initialisms and F.M. n. at F n. Initialisms 3a (as in quot. 1945 at sense 1). Originally U.S. 1. Television and the technology or equipment relating to it; the activity or occupation of broadcasting or transmitting on television; that which is broadcast or transmitted by television; = television n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] television1900 telly1930 tele1936 small screen1944 TV1945 teevee1948 1945 Broadcasting 8 Jan. 43 (advt.) In AM..FM..TV..your prime need in broadcast equipment. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 273/2 American TV is heavily supported by business interests. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon xiii. 333 We're standing by for an exciting evening of TV and a presleep report. 1983 M. Palin Diary 18 May in Halfway to Hollywood (2009) 257 Watch Chas McKeown's prog.., his first series for BBC TV. 1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred ii. vii. 90 One of the more popular characters today in films and TV is the crusty ungiving, authoritarian father who ‘really loves’ his children. 2014 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 24/6 Jerry Bruckheimer..in recent years has been producing more for TV. 2. A television set; = television n. 2. Cf. TV set n. at Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set television set1924 television1929 home video1949 TV1949 box1950 transistor set1953 telly1954 idiot box1955 monitor1957 boob tube1959 goggle-box1959 transportable1959 the tube1959 portable1960 set1961 widescreen1982 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Mar. 16/2 We aren't turning on the T.V. tonight. 1971 New Scientist 26 Aug. 469/1 The VCR is put between the TV and its aerial. 1987 I. McEwan Child in Time i. 11 Much of this freedom he spent..in front of the TV. 2014 Observer 19 Jan. (Mag.) 35 Stand up and turn off the TV. Phrases on (the) TV: = on (the) television at television n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 20 Aug. 26/4 (heading) Beauty winners on TV. 1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. iv. 47 Is the effect of showing violence in films or on TV to arouse or to satiate aggressive feelings? 1976 T. Sharpe Wilt xiii. 136 You've been watching too many old movies on the TV. 2013 M. Leibovich This Town xiii. 347 Aides would be competing with one another to get on TV. Compounds [Corresponding compounds with television as the first element are typically earlier than, and a likely model for, the equivalent formations with TV.] C1. a. General attributive.Many of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. For compounds denoting people involved in television broadcasting, see Compounds 2a; for compounds denoting material broadcast on television, see Compounds 2b.Recorded earliest in TV antenna n. at Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 2 July 65/4 Up to 300-foot TV antennas in residential areas. 1948 Billboard 10 Apr. 3/4 Current plans call for additional TV equipment. 1952 Life 17 Nov. 112 World-famous ‘Golden Throat’ tone system with extra-sensitive 12-inch speaker makes your..TV listening the finest ever! 1959 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 21 Jan. 3/7 (advt.) New..system protects all tubes against warm-up power surge, main cause of TV failure. 1960 Pop. Sci. May 232/2 What satellite telescopes see can be relayed directly to earth by TV technique. 1965 Guardian 10 Aug. 12/3 (advt.) The manufacture of radio and TV valves. 1978 Gramophone Aug. 391/1 The PAL TV format commonly used in Europe. 1984 A. Maupin Babycakes (1989) iii. 13 He wondered if he qualified as a full-fledged TV junkie. 1990 What Satellite July 54/2 April 20th saw a very rare TV feed of the Moscow first programme with sound undistorted. 2014 L. Bencze & S. Alsop Activist Sci. & Technol. Educ. xxxiv. 617 Workers in countries like China who manufacture TV components. b. TV aerial n. ΚΠ 1946 Electronic Engin. May p. vi/2 (advt.) What type of feeder should be used with a dipole T.V. aerial? 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vi. 133 A circling seagull..eventually settled on a TV aerial above a block of council flats. TV age n. ΚΠ 1950 Sponsor 25 Sept. 2 Big hope of movie exhibitors in TV age is large-screen showings of World Series,..other sports and special events. 2011 J. Foot Pedalare! Pedalare! xvii. 234 The TV age gave a live sport like cycling enormous visibility. TV antenna n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 2 July 65/4 Up to 300-foot TV antennas in residential areas. 2008 P. Parsons Blue Skies v. 230 Every time a home hooked up to the cable, the TV antenna came down. TV audience n. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 5 July 19/1 The optimistic estimates about a quickly growing TV audience are now being borne out. 2014 H. A. Solberg & C. Gratton in S. Frawley Managing Football World Cup iv. 47 The 2010 final attracted the highest ever TV audiences in both the home nations of the two finalists. TV broadcast n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 17 Sept. 4/1 Possible violations of religious freedom..in barring AFM members from TV broadcast of Jewish religious services over WBKB Chicago. 2012 Private Eye 15 June 14/3 The BBC had thought about a TV broadcast and discussed it over several months. TV broadcaster n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 9 July 77/2 (caption) William A. Roberts, Tv Broadcasters Assn. counsel. 2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Nov. a2/4 The low-band airwaves like those held by the TV broadcasters. TV broadcasting n. ΚΠ 1946 Television May 37/1 The present industry confusion over TV broadcasting. 2015 G. Thomas et al. in M. A. Magnor et al. Digital Representations of Real World xxi. 317 In the future these techniques might spread to other areas of TV broadcasting. TV channel n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 16 July 18/4 The first new TV channel. 2004 H. Kunzru Transmission (2005) 18 This is what comes of too many TV channels. TV coverage n. ΚΠ 1947 Sponsor Oct. 61/2 It's possible that national TV coverage is not a thing of the far-away future. 2012 Snooker Scene Mar. 10/2 This match was not selected for TV coverage. TV frequency n. ΚΠ 1945 Billboard 8 Dec. 15/1 Giant companies..moving ahead in multiple-station exploitation of the low TV frequencies. 2005 Media Policy for Digital Age i. 11 It is the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs that issues the FM radio and TV frequencies for (commercial) broadcasters. TV lounge n. ΚΠ 1950 N.Y. Times 28 May (Real Estate & Classified Advts. section) 23/4 (advt.) TV lounge. 2007 J. Sellers Perfect from now On vi. 69 I had no choice but to set off in search of a more optimal TV lounge on a different floor. TV mast n. ΚΠ 1948 Billboard 23 Oct. 12/4 The problem raised by TV masts and antennas. 2010 M. Denny Super Structures iii. 85 It is quite realistic for a TV mast..to be 50 or 60 times as high as it is wide. TV monitor n. ΚΠ 1948 Broadcasting, Telecasting 12 July 88 (advt.) Federal's TV monitor meets all FCC requirements. 2005 New Yorker 3 Oct. 77/1 A TV monitor with a video in it showing nothing but slowly moving trains. TV receiver n. ΚΠ 1945 Billboard 1 Dec. 28/4 Low-frequency TV receivers. 2013 M. Starks Digital Television Revol. ix. 198 The idea of a licence fee paid by every household with a TV receiver did not survive into the digital world in all countries with public services. TV reception n. ΚΠ 1946 Electronic Industries Dec. 4/1 (advt.) The new Andrew Di-Fan Broad Band Antenna, for improved FM and TV reception. 2001 Time 20 Aug. 64/1 A land of tall mountains and bad TV reception. TV room n. ΚΠ 1948 Variety 22 Dec. 21/5 San Francisco Theatres' 1,800-seater..will have a 200-seat separate TV room. 2005 V. Swarup Q & A 112 Come Wednesday night, he sits in the TV room with his stubby of Foster's beer. TV screen n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 17 Dec. 76/3 Reproductions of articles on CBS video are included with TV screen views. 2004 D. Peace GB 84 297 He stares at the silent TV screens. TV set n. ΚΠ 1946 Electronic Industries Oct. 84/1 TV set production prospects... Television receiver production is still in low gear. 2004 D. Redmond World is Watching Introd. 1 Video has migrated from the film screen and TV set to the personal computer and the Web at a dizzying rate. TV signal n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 13 Aug. 17/1 Fourteen ‘flying transmitters’..will blanket..78% of U.S. population with FM and TV signals. 2013 W. M. Hartmann Princ. Musical Acoustics xxi. 223 The TV signal includes both the audio and the video information. TV studio n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 3 Sept. 86/1 (heading) Wanamaker TV studios. 2002 R. Rankin Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Apocalypse xix. 209 We're here in a TV studio. Watching the Miss Muffett show live. TV transmission n. ΚΠ 1947 Tele-Tech Sept. 43/1 What effect did TV transmission have on mobile FM reception? 2009 M. Butter Epitome of Evil 1 The signal they are dealing with is a simple TV transmission. TV transmitter n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 26 Nov. 82/3 (heading) ‘Highest’ TV transmitter planned for Mt. Wilson. 2007 J. L. Baughman Same Time, Same Station i. 1 Throughout the country, consumers far from TV transmitters struggled to obtain a good signal. C2. a. attributive with the sense ‘designating a person who appears on or makes television programmes, or who is involved in television broadcasting more generally; designating an activity, process, etc., associated with such a person, or with the production or broadcast of television programmes’. Cf. television n. Compounds 2a. TV acting n. ΚΠ 1949 Television June 18/2 In general stage experience can be translated into TV acting better than that of radio. 2012 D. Cannon In-depth Acting ix. 127 If it was too naturalistic this might be considered filmic or TV acting. TV actor n. ΚΠ 1947 Tele-Tech Nov. 56/3 (heading) NBC's TV actors get radio direction. 2008 L. Weisberger Chasing Harry Winston 139 A TV actor,..a star on NBC's most popular prime-time series. TV actress n. ΚΠ 1949 Broadcasting 3 Jan. 62/1 Lenore Kingston, writer and TV actress. 2007 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Nov. 37/3 The one-time Neighbours poppette is too busy cramming in motherhood and being a TV actress. TV announcer n. ΚΠ 1948 Broadcasting, Telecasting 17 May 54 b/2 The TV announcer..will be headquartered in a booth. 2013 J. N. Maclean Esperanza Fire xi. 155 The TV announcer reported that heavy smoke..was expected to delay traffic. TV cameraman n. ΚΠ 1948 Boston Sunday Globe 11 July a18/5 So the TV announcer follows the TV cameraman. 2002 J. M. Rist Real Ethics (2003) i. 10 Human behaviour..as it is recorded directly by historians, journalists, TV cameramen and film-makers. TV celebrity n. ΚΠ 1950 N.Y. Times 27 Sept. 56/8 (advt.) Sec[retar]y to TV celebrity. 2005 M. Robotham Suspect xii. 97 A minor TV celebrity who is sporting a sun-bed tan and perfect teeth. TV comedian n. ΚΠ 1949 Time 8 Aug. 2/3 TV comedian..David Garroway..is due for a Time promotion. 2008 Independent 6 Mar. (Extra section) 6/1 Astronauts, sportsmen, professional satirists and TV comedians make up the premier league of post-prandial monologuists. TV commentator n. ΚΠ 1948 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 20 Dec. 14/5 I, for one, don't think the TV commentators talk enough. 2002 Observer 3 Nov. (Sport Monthly Suppl.) 66/3 He is now a successful TV commentator renowned for his eccentric musings on the game. TV crew n. ΚΠ 1948 Billboard 17 Apr. 14/1 Problems which do not usually harass TV crews working on a special event. 2007 Heat 17 Feb. 7/2 Jade was soon to be whisked to India by a TV crew. TV executive n. ΚΠ 1946 Frequency Modulation Business Feb. 31/2 (advt.) A..schedule of periodical reports as important to the FM and TV executive as expert tax and financial services in their fields. 2015 M. Bamberger Men in Green xvii. 186 TV executives..were figuring out that televised golf was a way to deliver the good life to the masses. TV journalism n. ΚΠ 1948 Broadcasting, Telecasting 25 Oct. 83/3 (advt.) News writer and editor interested in radio or TV journalism. 2000 J. D. Slack & M. M. Semati in J. Marchessault & K. Sawchuk Wild Sci. xiii. 215 The issue..in the tradition of TV journalism came to be called ‘the Sokal affair’. TV journalist n. ΚΠ 1952 Nation's Business June 32/2 These perpetual enemies work to please or thwart..radio and TV journalists. 2014 J. Rose Public Understanding of Polit. Integrity ii. 40 Trust in TV journalists was found to be unrelated to trust in the political authorities. TV producer n. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 22 Feb. 13/3 TV producers can solve some excruciatingly difficult inherent problems. 2001 J. Walsh & P. Lerman Public Enemies (2002) iii. 157 There is a certain part of any TV producer that wants the story you're involved in to be recognized as a big story. TV production n. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 22 Feb. 12/3 A victory for upstairs color would stymie practically all current TV production and black-white broadcasting. 2013 New Yorker 25 Feb. 74/1 As a model of TV production, it's an exciting experiment. TV pundit n. ΚΠ 1953 Radio & Television News Apr. 68/2 ‘Study the test pattern’, commanded the TV pundits in their service lectures. 2006 New Yorker 10 Apr. 25/1 For years, the immigration debate has been exercising politicians, economists, TV pundits, and editorial writers. TV reporter n. ΚΠ 1949 Chicago Heights (Illinois) Star 11 Mar. 11/2 (advt.) If you've a question, address them to the TV Reporter, furniture floor, the Rau Store, and we'll be happy to answer them for you. 2010 Church Times 9 Apr. 12/1 Meanwhile, TV reporters, intoxicated by heightened interest, become show-folk rather than journalists. TV script n. ΚΠ 1947 Jrnl. AER Feb. 101/1 Have you sample TV scripts which the Committee may reproduce in quantity for distribution? 2005 L. Brody Turning Points in Television xviii. 182 No TV script can stand much scrutiny. TV writer n. ΚΠ 1948 Variety 28 July 87/4 There are few staff TV writers. 2013 Fast Company June 138/2 We asked Ben Blacker, himself a TV writer, to interview the creators or showrunners of six stellar shows. b. attributive with the sense ‘designating material broadcast on television; shown on television’. TV ad n. ΚΠ 1949 Billboard 16 July 14/2 TV ads..were all slanted pricewise. 2006 FourFourTwo Aug. 101/2 Advertising caffeine-fuelled Brazilian drink Guarana Antartica, Maradona appears in a TV ad in a Brazil top. TV adaptation n. ΚΠ 1948 Variety 6 Oct. 28/1 TV adaptations of dramatic clicks. 2009 G. Dyer Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 53 Looking like he was starring in a TV adaptation of a novel about an artist who was also one of the Cambridge spies. TV advert n. ΚΠ 1951 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. 30/8 (advt.) Opportunity!.. TV advert. 2011 Independent 18 Nov. 23/5 A recent TV advert encouraged unemployed young people to apply for careers advice. TV advertisement n. ΚΠ 1948 Televiser Apr. 29/2 $10,000,000 for TV advertisements in '48. 2015 S. Thuiner Banks of Future p. v It will take more than a few TV advertisements..to respond to customer alienation. TV advertising n. ΚΠ 1948 Televiser Mar. 33/1 $10,000,000 for TV Advertising. 2007 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 23/1 The unexpected revelation that restrictions on TV advertising are to be eased. TV comedy n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 29 Oct. 29/3 TV comedy... New Series of comedy sketches..started Oct. 16 by CBS television. 2007 Esquire Dec. 83/3 Larry Gelbart and Alan Alda, writer and star of the great Seventies military TV comedy MASH. TV commercial n. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard* 11 Oct. 16/4 The quality and forcefulness of the respective sponsor's TV commercials. 2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 June b3/1 Advertisers looking for alternatives to traditional TV commercials. TV documentary n. ΚΠ 1948 Variety 15 Sept. 36/5 A special television camera crew..which is filming material for ABC's first TV documentary. 2008 R. Moore & G. Owen My Word is my Bond (2009) xiv. 363 I often introduced TV documentaries or took part in promotional interviews. TV drama n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 3 Sept. 60/3 (heading) TV drama. 2012 Independent 19 Nov. 22/2 The advent of The Sopranos in 1999..ushered in a golden decade of TV drama. TV film n. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 5 Apr. 12/2 (heading) Chi producer claims TV film only answer to medium's high demand for low cost programs. 2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 7 Aug. 20 The story..is to be made into a TV film by Walt Disney. TV interview n. ΚΠ 1948 Billboard 13 Nov. 16/2 TV interviews with the guy laughingly referred to as the common man are pretty sorry deals at best. 2007 Guardian 12 Feb. (G2 section) 2/2 In a rare TV interview, JK Rowling said two characters would die in the final book. TV news n. ΚΠ 1949 Billboard 26 Feb. 15 (table) Thursday, CBS, 7:30–7:45, ‘TV News’. 2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 573 Howard's sitting in front of the TV news that night. TV play n. ΚΠ 1948 Variety 3 Mar. 26/4 (heading) Motorola preps TV play series from Chi Museum. 2010 M. Caine Elephant to Hollywood iv. 49 Sean Connery..had got the lead role in the TV play Requiem for a Heavyweight. TV programme n. ΚΠ 1947 Broadcasting, Telecasting 13 Jan. 17/1 (heading) TBA authorizes TV program code. 2004 A. Crumey Mobius Dick (2005) 96 The people who know all about the uncertainty principle and Schrödinger's cat from countless popular books and TV programmes. TV programming n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 19 Nov. 28/4 (heading) TV programming. 2014 M. Cosper Stories we Tell x. 194 Survivor was relatively cheap to produce and enormously popular, spawning a revolution in TV programming. TV serial n. ΚΠ 1948 Radio Daily 18 Aug. 54/1 It is highly entertaining and being a TV serial an excellent advertising vehicle for a good product. 2001 Birds Summer 24/1 The Good Life encompassed the principle in a sweet TV serial that everyone liked. TV series n. ΚΠ 1946 Broadcasting, Telecasting 30 Dec. 4/4 (heading) Two TV series. 2005 Millimeter Oct. 13/1 (caption) The crew used the original Serenity ship model from the Firefly TV series. TV show n. ΚΠ 1945 Broadcasting 3 Sept. 42/1 TV show started by Chicago schools. 2011 H. Pool Stranger in Taiwan 172 The perfect way to spend the free afternoon and evening would have been to..watch some DVDs of British TV shows I'd been saving up. TV spot n. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 20 Sept. 27 (heading) CBS's on-the-spot TV spot. 2009 New Yorker 19 Jan. 44/1 With this material, I can't reach you emotionally, tell the story, or be visually transcendent in a thirty-second TV spot. C3. Objective, as TV owner, TV viewer, TV viewing, etc. ΚΠ 1948 Sponsor Mar. 72/2 TV viewing is changing listening habits. 1949 Variety 26 Jan. 11/4 It is open to question whether or not the theatre audiences didn't do just as well as TV watchers in having the highlights edited. 1955 Washington Post 20 June 20/6 Although only 29 per cent of TV owners read books, only 35 per cent without sets do either. 1984 Irish Times 24 Jan. 10/2 A TV-loving mongrel and his canine preferences. 1994 F. Gray Women & Laughter ii. 42 Ordinary, TV-watching people like themselves. 2014 H. E. Naess Sociol. World Rally Championship i. 1 A pop-cultural roadshow..with..more than 600 million TV viewers annually. C4. TV cabinet n. a piece of furniture housing a television, or on which a television stands. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets Flanders chest1400 warestall1508 livery cupboard1571 boy1656 by-closet1696 corner-cupboard1711 India cabinet1721 pot-cupboard1789 housemaid's cupboard1843 monocleid1885 vargueño1911 console1925 cocktail cabinet1928 storage unit1951 1948 Tele-tech May 21/2 One large company has inaugurated a continuous cabinet production line that fabricates TV cabinets from the wood. 2006 Good Woodworking June 73/3 The most complex project is probably the tambour-door TV cabinet. TV camera n. = television camera n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera kinetograph1891 kinetophonograph1894 cinematograph1896 animatograph1898 sound camera1904 cinecamera1908 cinema1908 aeroscope1913 TV camera1947 camcorder1982 headcam1991 1947 Billboard 13 Sept. 14/3 (heading) TV camera accuracy. 1977 New Scientist 14 Apr. 83/1 An auxiliary TV camera with a wide-angle lens. 2009 R. Ferrigno Heart of Assassin xxvi. 170 Malcolm Crews strutted across the stage.., posturing for the TV cameras. TV chef n. a chef who appears regularly on television, demonstrating recipes and other cookery techniques. ΚΠ 1956 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 32 The TV chef[sc. Philip Harben] smacked his lips as he recalled the hors d'oeuvres..served there. 2011 Independent 8 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 12/3 We've been encouraged by a thousand food writers and TV chefs to examine the raw materials we're about to transform into fuel and shove into our mouths. TV critic n. = television critic n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1949 Variety 18 May 36/3 Lesser-known professional talent will be judged by a panel of TV critics. 2003 Washington Post 1 June (Home ed.) (TV Week section) 6/1 TV critics often point out that the network has lost faith in the series. TV dinner n. originally U.S. a (usually chilled or frozen) prepared, pre-packaged complete meal that only requires heating in a microwave or conventional oven before it is ready to eat, typically intended to be eaten while watching television; cf. ready meal n. at ready adj., adv., int., and n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > main meal or dinner mealeOE dinnerc1325 dinea1425 Christmas dinner1581 Sunday dinner1602 corporation dinner1732 Russian dinner1805 boiled dinner1823 pickup1848 Robin Dinner1877 course-dinner1895 shore dinner1895 din-din1905 gala dinner1934 TV dinner1952 working dinner1956 steak dinnera1964 1952 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Daily Freeman 5 Sept. 5/4 Take home Goff's delicious TV dinners. 1970 L. Koenig & P. L. Dixon Children are Watching (1971) i. 6 Inside the stove glinted four TV dinners..nested in silver-aluminum trays,..identical portions of gray pot roast, dinner roll, wrinkled peas and rigid mashed potatoes under foil. 2009 Independent 23 July (Life section) 8/3 The TV Dinner became typical of the frozen ready meal. TV engineer n. = television engineer n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > people involved in television production > others production director1915 production manager1927 television engineer1930 production assistant1932 vision-mixer1938 TV engineer1946 lighting cameraman1947 floor manager1960 helmer1974 showrunner1989 1946 Electronic Industries Oct. 57/2 Some TV engineers define their picture results in ‘foot-candles’. 2001 M. Blackstaff Business & Finance for IT People vii. 89 The TV engineer will come to see to your TV. TV evangelism n. originally U.S. = televangelism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > through television television evangelism1951 TV evangelism1957 televangelism1958 1957 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 2 Aug. 11/3 TV evangelism appears not up to expectations. 1977 Washington Post 25 July b1/ Rev. M.G. ‘Pat’ Robertson has changed the style of TV evangelism. 2011 B. S. Turner Relig. & Mod. Society xi. 218 The dominant evangelical Protestant message of TV evangelism. TV evangelist n. originally U.S. = televangelist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > through television > one who evangelizes television evangelist1950 TV evangelist1953 televangelist1973 televangelical1982 1953 Los Angeles Times 5 May ii. 1/8 Fred Jordan, radio and TV evangelist. 1981 J. K. Hadden & C. E. Swann Prime Time Preachers i. 5 Jerry Falwell, another TV evangelist, and his Moral Majority showed up in force at the Republican National Convention. 2014 R. Sanjek Ethnogr. in Today's World iii. 46 His sermon..criticized the TV evangelists for their hypocrisy. TV guide n. = television guide n. at television n. Compounds 4.A proprietary name in the United States. ΚΠ 1949 Televiser Feb. 9 Your subscription to TV Guide. 1971 J. Lorimer & M. Phillips Working People viii. 251 Let's look at the TV guide and see what's on. 2004 P. Lennon Allusions in Press 10 Popular items tend to include TV guides, cartoons, horoscopes and stories about star personalities. TV image n. = television image n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image television image1909 frame1915 television picture1926 TV picture1947 home video1948 TV image1948 1948 Pop. Mech. Sept. 224/2 Patterns that interfere with the clarity of TV images. 1993 New Scientist 2 Oct. 42/2 The doctors..benefit from being able to transmit X-rays and high-definition TV images of patients to a large central hospital. 2015 J. A. Turnock Plastic Reality iv. 145 Much like a video or TV image, all elements [of 5247 filk stock] tended to look like they were on the same flat plane. TV industry n. = television industry n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organized television broadcasting television1927 television industry1928 TV industry1946 television land1950 TV land1952 1946 Frequency Modulation Business May 32/1 (advt.) A unique service to the FM and TV industries. 1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 14 Nov. 13/1 The ITC's franchise awards promise to further complicate a TV industry already in a state of disarray. 2015 K. Wolfe TV Presenter's Career Handbk. xvi. 125 What advice does Jude offer to people wanting to enter the TV industry? TV licence n. = television licence n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television licencing television licence1926 TV licence1945 1945 Broadcasting 24 Sept. 83/2 No person..can be granted a TV license if he owns or controls a site which..would prevent the introduction of other stations in the area. 1948 Broadcasting 30 Aug. 18/4 2400 TV licenses were taken out during July. 1987 P. Berryman Liberation Theol. xii. 185 In theory, anyone can publish a newspaper or apply for a TV license. 2009 C. Dawson Essent. Guide to Paying for University iv. 50 It is possible to get a refund on your TV licence if you leave your accommodation before the licence expires. TV magazine n. = television magazine n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1948 Televiser Aug. 2/3 New TV Magazine: A new monthly consumer magazine..will hit the stands in November. 1974 L. Gould Final Anal. xiii. 158 She'd had a job at a TV magazine called Rerun. 2002 D. Chiaro in G. Garzone & M. Viezzi Interpreting in 21st Cent. 215 TV magazines and/or variety shows which are principally concerned with music and film. TV movie n. (a) a film recording of a television broadcast (now disused); (b) a movie shown on television, esp. one specially made for that medium rather than for release at the cinema (cf. made-for-TV adj. at made adj. Compounds 2); cf. TV film n. at Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1949 Pop. Photogr. May 10/2 I had recently tried making TV movies myself. 1949 Washington Post 31 July vi. 4/1 (heading) Phonevision gives you your own TV movie. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 9 Mar. 87/2 The doomed romance..feels like it was lifted from a bad TV movie. TV network n. = television network n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organization or service television station1926 television network1930 TV station1945 TV network1947 channel1952 Independent Television (Authority)1954 I.T.A.1955 I.T.V.1958 side1961 Channel 41964 MTV1981 1947 Billboard 28 June 18/4 (heading) Provides for TV network. 1976 Maclean's 9 Feb. 32/2 The secret and all-powerful Q Ratings that are researched for TV networks to determine a performer's appeal. 2012 Vanity Fair Mar. 275/1 ‘Pilot season’—the period when many TV networks cast and produce the first episodes of prospective new shows. TV personality n. = television personality n. (b) at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television personality television personality1929 TV star1948 televisionary1960 1948 Variety 11 Aug. 28/4 Developing of potential TV personalities. 2005 A. Smith Accidental 43 It is a girl's neat bedroom. It has posters of singers, pictures of tv personalities. TV picture n. = television picture n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image television image1909 frame1915 television picture1926 TV picture1947 home video1948 TV image1948 1947 Television Jan. 4/1 Most of them know why ‘image orthicons’ make for better tv pictures. 1966 Pop. Mech. Oct. 200/1 The TV picture shrinks to a little dot and disappears. 2006 Hi Life Issue 5 64/1 Widescreen, ultra-detailed TV pictures with surround sound are an exciting prospect. TV presenter n. = television presenter n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1952 Sponsor 17 Nov. 90/3 Related closely to this question of the ‘compatible’ TV presenter is the use of authorities in TV commercials. 1990 Today 12 Mar. 2 The awards were announced at the Savoy Hotel by TV presenter Valerie Singleton. 2011 S. Leith You talkin' to Me? 143 We've all witnessed with embarrassment..the panicky TV presenter ‘drying’ on air. TV ratings n. = television ratings n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1946 Broadcasting 28 Oct. 4/1 Permanent base for FM and TV ratings..will be established. 2010 Observer 3 Jan. 32/5 It's a safe bet that Jersey Shore will do well,..as its cast continues to fist-pump, fight and fornicate their way up the TV ratings. TV region n. = television region n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > area covered by region1929 coverage1930 TV region1948 television region1949 1948 Broadcasting 12 July 98/1 Part of the upper band might be given to government services displaced by its plan to add 8 channels in present TV region. 1980 Observer 27 Jan. 2/1 The most vulnerable programmes..are the ‘opt-outs’ produced in the eight English TV regions. 2011 A. McStay Mood of Information 154 Television services in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region. TV replay n. (a) a second or further broadcast of a television programme; a repeat (now rare); (b) a playback on television of an incident in a sporting event, esp. in slow motion; an instant replay; = television replay n. (b) at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > action or instance of replaying recording > specific television replay1954 TV replay1955 action replay1970 instant replay1973 1955 Amer. News Trade Jrnl. Apr. 9/1 There will be TV replays of ‘20,000 Leagues’ on March 16 and 30. 1959 Billboard 19 Oct. 40/5 The Three Stooges have been making a strong comeback via TV replays of their old film shorts. 1966 N.Y. Times 26 May 61/5 (heading) Instant TV replays on field banned by Pacific Elevens. 2006 Express (Scottish ed.) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 75 TV replays showed Roger Mayweather was already clambering into the ring before time had been called. TV rights n. = television rights n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1947 Broadcasting 13 Jan. 16/1 (heading) TV rights to NBC. 1988 C. Chapman & R. Starkman On Edge x. 148 The race organizers alone receive $15 million a year from sponsorship, TV rights and gate money. 2001 Dreamwatch Oct. 22/1 Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures have optioned the feature and TV rights to a short story based on Clive Barker's Ecto-Kid. TV satellite n. = television satellite n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > satellite television satellite1952 TV satellite1957 satellite dish1962 direct broadcasting by satellite1977 DBS1981 Squarial1988 1957 N.Y. Times 11 Oct. 7/1 (heading) Astronautical experts see prospect of TV satellite to watch whole world. 1970 Pop. Sci. May 65/1 The TV satellite..will have a solar-powered 80-watt transmitter..and a suitable receiver to intercept a TV program beamed up to it. 2010 G. Bains in C. Forrester High Above (2011) ii. 24/1 TV satellites can spread their signal over a far wider area than any Earth-based transmitter. TV schedule n. = television schedule n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1947 Broadcasting 24 Mar. 54/4 (heading) Expands TV schedule. 2004 BBC Good Food Oct. 119/3 Michelin-starred Gordon Ramsay..livens up the TV schedules with C4's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. TV special n. = television special n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme dramedy1905 news film1912 sex comedy1915 television adaptation1935 action comedy1936 sportcast1939 teleshopper1949 telethon1949 special1952 television special1952 TV special1952 science-fictioner1953 spectacular1954 promo1955 sitcom1956 spec1959 spin-off1959 reality programming1962 teleroman1964 mockumentary1965 serialization1965 talk show1965 laugh-in1967 novela1968 reality show1968 breakfast television1971 spy series1975 reality television1978 reality TV1980 series1988 shockumentary1988 1952 Billboard 5 Jan. 3/4 (heading) Bill Stern signed up for 13 TV specials. 1990 Fortune 3 Dec. 177/3 Bass's Space Biospheres Ventures arranged for two prime-time TV specials to document the occasion. 2003 K. Slater & J. Borte Pipe Dreams (2004) ix. 191 She was shooting a TV special, and we clicked immediately. TV stand n. a piece of furniture on which a television stands. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > other stands boot-rack1837 umbrella-stand1837 watch-stand1858 pot stand1868 wig-stand1883 tie rack1916 patio stand1969 1954 Living for Young Homemakers Jan. 18 (advt.) All you need is a screwdriver to build tables, couches, benches, TV stands, desks. 2017 J. Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing iii. 81 The television sits on top of a box instead of a TV stand. TV star n. = television star n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television personality television personality1929 TV star1948 televisionary1960 1948 Washington Post 29 Aug. vi. 4/1 (heading) Local TV stars top poll. 2015 P. O'Reilly Peripheral Vision 6 Marly thought he should be a model or a TV star, not some loser walking around the suburbs trying to sell stuff. TV station n. = television station n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting station station1910 transmitting station1923 television station1926 rebroadcaster1930 TV station1945 society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > organization or service television station1926 television network1930 TV station1945 TV network1947 channel1952 Independent Television (Authority)1954 I.T.A.1955 I.T.V.1958 side1961 Channel 41964 MTV1981 1945 Broadcasting 19 Mar. 82/2 New commercial TV station. 1970 Time 28 Sept. 66/2 Working as a ‘gofer’ at a Minneapolis TV station. 2014 S. Friedman Comedy & Distinction i. 1 The scheduling plans of Britain's biggest TV station..were leaked to the press. TV tube n. a vacuum tube (in later use spec. a cathode ray tube) used in a television to convert electrical signals into images; = television tube n. (a) at television n. Compounds 4; (hence) television; a TV set (cf. tube n. 2k). ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set > cathode-ray tube television tube1928 kinescope1930 picture tube1940 TV tube1945 1945 Broadcasting 12 Nov. 34/2 (heading) NBC uses new TV tube in coverage of election. 1991 Photographer Aug. 27/2 The TV tube, whether seen in your living room or used on a high-end computer image manipulation system, has a marked tendency to compress the shadow tones. 2004 Alberni Valley (Brit. Columbia) Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. b2 Not being a hockey fan, the little of the game I do see is usually the fare presented on the TV tube. TV van n. = television van n. at television n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1949 Communications (N.Y.) Dec. 10 (heading) TV vans, serving as a control room. 1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873/1 TV vans surround the house. 2004 H. Kunzru Transmission (2005) 162 A TV van and a few hire cars had pulled up on to the grass verge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2022). TVn.² Brit. /ˌtiːˈviː/, U.S. /ˌtiˈvi/ Origin: Formed within English, as an initialism. Etymon: transvestite n. 1 Etymology: Initialism < the initial letters of the elements of transvestite n. 1 colloquial. A transvestite. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing clothes associated with opposite sex > person berdache1806 hijra1838 she-male1842 female impersonator1857 transvestite1911 Eonist1928 transvestist1928 transvestitist1930 drag queen1941 moffie1960 TV1960 shim1973 cross-dresser1976 tranny1979 1960 Transvestia (Los Angeles) May 78 ‘Edith’ of New York wishes to contact a woman or another TV in this city. 1979 J. Hansen Skinflick (1980) x. 81 Spence doesn't want to be fooled. He knows I'm a TV. 2002 P. McSherry Mean Streets vii. 107 Some ‘TVs’ are entertainers in the bars. 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